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mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

22 December 2023

Rat Wars - HEALTH

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

  1. Rat Wars
    HEALTH
  2. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
  3. Mono
    K.Flay
  4. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  5. Psychic Dance Routine
    Scowl
  6. The Algorithm
    Filter
  7. Michael
    Killer Mike
  8. Cracker Island
    Gorillaz
  9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  10. Jubilee
    Old Crow Medicine Show
  11. Rivers of Heresy
    Empire State Bastard
  12. Mid Air
    Romy
  13. Unicorn
    Gunship
  14. Chrome Dreams
    Neil Young
  15. Venom
    Wargasm
  16. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
  17. Integrated Tech Solutions
    Aesop Rock
  18. Stone
    Baroness
  19. One More Time
    Blink-182
  20. Echosmith
    Echosmith
  21. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  22. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  23. Endless Summer Vacation
    Miley Cyrus
  24. the record
    boygenius
  25. Spine
    Myrkur
  26. Dethalbum IV
    Dethklok
  27. So Much (For) Stardust
    Fall Out Boy
  28. Mammoth II
    Mammoth WVH
  29. Bird Machine
    Sparklehorse
  30. Cold War Kids
    Cold War Kids
  31. Club Romantech
    Icona Pop
  32. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  33. A Reckoning
    Kimbra
  34. TZIA
    Meg Myers
  35. God Made Me An Animal
    Better Lovers
  36. When No Birds Sang
    Full of Hell and Nothing
  37. The Future Is Your Past
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  38. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
  39. Concept Album
    Dwarves
  40. Phantomime
    Ghost

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